Central Huron Mayor, Jim Ginn, now has a seat on a committee of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Cities Initiative.
Ginn says the issue they're looking at specifically is high water levels and they're trying to promote best practices and education as a way to find the best solutions.
“It's looking largely at the high water levels and trying to get some best practices and education outreach and just trying to find some kind of a solution. Of course this is all across all five of the Great Lakes and even into the St. Lawrence,” said Ginn.
The committee is encouraging people to find natural solutions, like using green infrastructure.
“So, how to protect your beach naturally, so vegetation, trees, the likes of that. Certainly cutting trees on the lake bluff and clear cutting areas is absolutely the wrong thing to be doing,” added Ginn.
Ginn points out the fluctuations in water levels on the Great Lakes is nothing new as the levels rise and fall regularly over a period of several years. But he says the cycles seem to have condensed and we've gone from what had been a fifteen to twenty year cycle to going from high to low and back in about five years.
